Ali Herring
Literary Agent
Spencerhill Associates
Literary Agent, Spencerhill Associates. Twin mom+1 📚 Eclectic in life & books. I 💙 Jane Austen & SFF in equal doses. #TeamSpencerhill Ali-ens 👽 rock!
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Kiley Autumn @KileyAWrites
Looking for #MG where the narrator every once in awhile casually addresses the reader (i.e. "You know how sometimes..." or "Have you ever had a stone stuck in your shoe?"), but NOT in a "This is what happened to me last summer & I'm going to tell you about it" type way. Thoughts?You know, #MSWL for when I reopen.
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Been having the best time with my youngest, who introduced me to Fruits Basket over break. Just finished the third season, and if anyone can send me an MS that comps to that or makes me feel the same way Tohru, Kyo, Yuki, Momiji, Haru, Rin & the zodiac members do, I'm in... #MSWL
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Someone send me a dramedy like the old show ER except in book form. Maybe something with series potential, but it's own arc. #MSWL.
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unintentionelle @ellewasamistake
if i were a 300 year old immortal vampire, i would simply not enrol in a local high school#MSWL grouchy, hot 300 year old immortal vampire who watches other hot 300 year old immortal vampires going to high school and makes horrible fun of them but then has to eat his words, because there's this girl ...
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I love the word adorkable and everything it conveys. Pls give me a YA novel with adorkable characters witg just as an adorkable plot. Some romance would be nice. I need something quirky. Thank you. #MSWL.
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Ok so I love general market books with religious content. Think anything Dan Brown or in inspy Frank Peretti. Now merge that with a touch or smidge more of horror. Now hear me: I DO NOT want anything sacrilegious--at all. We all have our boundaries. #MSWL
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#MSWL *Think "If Bridgerton was an inspirational novel."
*Think "not an old-fashioned romance" but still set in opulent historical regency period.
*Think "not historically accurate." Give me diversity, sass.
*I am looking specifically for Inspy/Christian fic/clean" read romance
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I ran across the adventures of Pearl Heart today and would #MSWL any kind of fictionalized riff off her story. Not looking for "her story."
Just find inspiration in her. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Hart
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Ok I really loved Moonfall! #MSWL anything like this. Not the destructive A* thing but more the idea of "possibility" that the end left us with!
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Ali Herring (closed to queries until 8/16) @HerringAli
I have now answered every query in QM I received PRIOR to closing to queries at the beginning of summer. I've got inbox zero for when I reopen tomorrow.#MSWL -YA historical realistic centered on a historical but fictionalized MC -High-concept fast-moving YA -Contemporary MG -space opera -generation ship setting -western settings / adventure -inspy & category romance -accessible scifi -diverse scifi -Hallmark-esque MG 1st love
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#MSWL I would really love a YA historical realistic novel (meaning no fantasy elements) set in the dark or middle ages. Would love a female lead who influences history (but not necessarily a real or true-to-history historical figure) kind of like Uhtred in The Last Kingdom.
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Ashlie Danielle Stevens @AshlieD_Stevens
Some of you never read "The Boxcar Children" and had a summer of daydreaming about harvesting blueberries and keeping bottles of milk cool in a stream and it shows.I adore the summer I got to dream all this and if someone ever sent me a MG novel that gave me these feels, I would sign them in a heart beat. #MSWL
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#MSWL For when I reopen, a thought-provoking but commercial YA from the perspective of the "mean girl" (but I want to understand her, her motivations, background, and want the audience to feel sympathetic towards her).
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I'm marathoning every (good) Cinderella movie ever made with my baby girl today and it really, really makes me want a Cinderella retelling. Ever After's my fave & I'd especially vibe something realistic & historical like that but will look at anything you send me! #MSWL
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#MSWL ok so I close to queries next Tuesday but can anyone send me something with The Magicians's vibes and/or Elliot energy before then? Also sci-fi all ages, get it in.
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Doth @DothTheDoth
The monster isn’t under your bed or in the woods, it’s you. The monster has always been you.#MSWL adult horror. This premise. Unreliable narrator. Please. Thank you.
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#MSWL Would love a Love Inspired or category length romantic suspense novel with an "undercover" hook. Could be heroine is under cover or the hero, but I'd love to read that. Would like an unusual setting too. Maybe an island near Portland or Seattle, or Caribbean, cruise ship?
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Lora Senf @Lora013
@HerringAli Now spite is a romance sub-genre I can get behindCouldn't have said it better. So I'll retweet my #MSWL. Give me a romance where they are getting married just to spite EVERYONE (and then of course fall in love).